Improvement in fastenings for coffins



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WARREN s. CRANE, 0E ROME, GEORGIA.`

IMPROVEMENT IN FASTENINGS FOR COFFINS.v

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 143,748, dated Oetuber 21, 1873 appeaton filed September 10, 1873.

To all whom itmay concern: slot G to slide under the head ofthe screw C,

Be it known that I, WARREN S. CRANE, of as shown in Figure 2. l

Rome, county of Floyd, State of Georgia, have The fastening is shown elosed in the side invented an Improvement in Fastenings for view, Fig. 1.

Cofns, 812e., of which the following is a speei- I elaim as my inventionoation: The combination of the cap E and slot G,

The object of my invention is to fasten the perforated plate F,vand screw C as a coffinlid of a eofn quickly and easily. fastening, substantially as described.

The lid A A is placed on the box B B, let- WARREN S. CRANE. ting the screw C (which is inserted in boX Witnesses: B B) come through the hole D. VThe cap E is A. E. Ross, turned, covering the plate F and allowing the W. S. FRANKLIN. 

